PART OF SPEECH - SS1 English Lesson Note

English words are classified into eight parts of speech according to their functions in a sentence. The parts of speech are:

• Noun: a noun refers to the name of anything. It is the name of a person, animal, place, thing or event etc e. g. John, dog, Nigeria, Audu, school, box, stone.
• Pronoun: A word which is used in place of a noun is called a Pronoun, e.g. he, she, I, we, they, it, him, her, ours, mine, himself, themselves.
• Verb: A verb is a word which expresses an action. It also expresses a state of being, e.g. eats, dance, take, drive.
• Adjective: An adjective describes a noun or pronoun, e.g. good, bad, young, fast, kind, and red.
• Preposition: a preposition is used to show what one person or thing has to do with another person or thing in terms of position. It normally comes before a noun or pronoun, e.g. in, form, to, over, behind, after, between, on.
• Conjunction: a conjunction is a word that joins phrases or sentences together, e.g. but, and, because, after, until, before, if, so, since.
• Adverb: an adverb tells more about verbs. It tells how, where, or when an action is carried out. Examples are sadly, kindly, quickly, fast.
• (Exclamation/Interjection): A short word or phrase used to express sudden surprise, annoyance, pain and happiness, e.g. Oh! Stop! Hurray!